The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
– Martha Beck
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
